Marie Claire magazine blogger controversy on "Mike & Molly"

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By Rachel Elbaum
TODAYshow.com

updated 10/28/2010 10:06:42 AM ET 2010-10-28T14:06:42

Should fatties get a room? It’s a question that one Marie Claire blogger asked — and answered. And she is getting vilified for it.

It all started this week when Maura Kelly, who writes the “A Year of Living Flirtatiously” blog for Marie Claire, posted a story Monday about “Mike & Molly,”a CBS sitcom about an overweight couple who met at Overeaters Anonymous. CBS recently gave the new series a full-season order despite some public criticism that its frequent fat jokes are insensitive.

But “insensitive” is about the kindest description that’s been given of Kelly’s post, in which she tries to answer the question: Are people really uncomfortable watching overweight people making out on TV?

“Yes, I think I'd be grossed out if I had to watch two characters with rolls and rolls of fat kissing each other ... because I'd be grossed out if I had to watch them doing anything,” she writes in her post. “To be brutally honest, even in real life, I find it aesthetically displeasing to watch a very, very fat person simply walk across a room — just like I'd find it distressing if I saw a very drunk person stumbling across a bar or a heroine(sic) addict slumping in a chair.”

The Clicker: Fatties are just fine on TV, Marie Claire

She adds that she has “plump” friends, and argues that obesity is costing the country real money in terms of the related health problems. Glibly, she also offers her expertise in helping obese people slim down. “I’m happy to give you some nutrition and fitness suggestions if you need them,” she writes.

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I think there is ample evidence on why she's not getting marriage proprosals any time soon.

We've dealt with this issue at DU many times in the past, but there is a lack of resolution in that issue that is difficult to arrive at. We're all pretty much the same, and there is ample evidence that many who are overweight struggle endlessly to lose weight, as well as deal with lots of scorn because they aren't thinner. Weight in this day and age is still an uncomfortable topic to discuss, and too many people don't understand that a great part of it is uncontrollable.

Someday, perhaps, the intolerance toward those over a certain weight will dissipate and vanish. But I'm not sure I'll live old enough to see that day come.

It's refreshing to see abundant folks portrayed as real people and not the smart alec Friend.

I was pretty heavy at one time, and all I ever saw was side kicks and sad fat people.

It shows how they deal with all the snide remarks because you know, fat people are suppose to be jolly.